Google is making it much easier to experiment with AI-generated video. The company is expanding Google Vids beyond its previous availability, allowing anyone with a Google or Google Workspace account to use the video creation tool for free.
More importantly, this isn’t a stripped-down version of Vids. Google is bringing its Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash model along for the ride, which means you can generate video clips from scratch and have considerably more say over how they turn out. The idea is to make Vids useful even if you’ve never touched professional video editing software.
Google is giving you more control over AI video
One of the more interesting parts of the update is how much control Google is putting in your hands. Instead of entering a prompt and hoping the resulting clip fits your project, you can be much more precise about what you need. For example, Vids can now extend an existing scene while trying to preserve important details such as the characters, environment, and lighting. You can also specify exactly how long you want an AI-generated clip to be, which should make fitting footage around a script or voiceover considerably easier.
Quality is also getting an upgrade. Newly generated scenes can be created in 1080p, while existing AI clips can be upscaled to HD. That’s particularly useful when you’re stitching several generated scenes together and don’t want one noticeably softer clip breaking the illusion. Google is also positioning Vids as something you can jump into quickly. Templates can help turn product photos or other existing material into a finished video without requiring you to manually build everything from an empty timeline.
AI voiceovers are coming next
Google isn’t stopping with visuals. The company says Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite-powered text-to-speech is coming soon to Vids, allowing you to turn a written script into a voiceover in more than 100 languages. That could make Vids a much more complete creation tool. You could theoretically go from an idea to generated footage and narration without recording your own audio or opening a traditional video editor. It also includes an AI disclosure measure. Videos generated using Omni 1.1 include Google’s SynthID watermark inside their frames, providing a way to identify the footage as AI-generated.
Anyone with a Google or Google Workspace account can start using Vids and Omni 1.1 without paying. Google says its paid AI plans will provide higher generation limits for personal accounts, while Workspace Business and Enterprise customers get additional capacity and administrative controls. For casual creators, though, the biggest change is much simpler: one of Google’s most capable AI video tools just became considerably easier to try.
